barneypiccolo

I got permabanned from Reddit in the February Bloodbath, after 12 years and over 900K karma. They have obviously reviewed my post history, and are aware of my radical anti-MAGA opinions. I'm on their radar, and sooner or later they'll come knocking.

Its only until our own black site at Guantanamo has completed their new 30,000 prisoner facility. Then we can torture and execute dissidents ourselves, outside if the view of the media and courts.

They have mental illness - OCD and Hoarding.

If I collected old newspapers, or cats, or old vehicles, etc., far beyond what anyone would consider normal, I'd be called a hoarder, and people around me would try to get me medical attention.

But when these people do the same thing with money, they are practically worshipped, and they are encouraged to hoard more, and use their money to change the laws to get them even more money to hoard. Imagine someone who is hoarding hundreds of cats, and actively breeding more of them. NOBODY would encourage it, they would take the cats away, and find them new homes, and get psychatric treatment for the hoarder.

We need to treat billionaires like the financial hoarders that they are. Take away their hoard, and discourage hoarding behavior in the future, for the same reasons that we would remove the cats - because it's bad for society.

This is theater. First and foremost, even if they could pass the bill through both houses, he would NEVER sign it, and they'd never have the votes for an over-ride. So the concept is already dead in the water.

Secondly, 40 days of tariffs like these would still do incredible economic damage, and still crash the global economy. All he would have to do is run the tariffs for 39 days, and then renew them with a slight change for another 39 days.

So its all a useless ploy to give Republicans the opportunity to say "See we did everything to oppose him as well, but he's such a genius that he outsmarted us at every turn."

Yeah, as if he thinks the rules apply to him, even the Constitution. Even if he were to somehow lose a heavily-rigged election, he would just pull a Maduro, and simply refuse to leave the White House. It's doubtful that anyone would do anything like physically drag him out of the White House. He would just stay there as the Dems dragged it through the courts, and then he would ignore whatever unfavorable decisions the courts make, and the Republicans in Congress would go along with it.

3.5 years assumes there will be an election at all, or a fair one. They rigged the last one, they will definitely rig the next one.

But I don't think he'll take the chance. He was heavily hated in 2020, and if anything, he is already hated even more. The mid-terms are shaping up to be a blood bath. He can't afford to lose his congressional majorities in either house, and have Dems take over even one of them, or they'll control investigative committees with subpoena and arrest power. And this time they will be much more heavily motivated to be aggressive. Americans wanted bold action from Biden, and they didn't get it, which kept the 2024 race close enough to steal. I just saw Adam Schiff in an interview, and he indicated that the Dems recognize that they didn't act "boldly" enough, and they suffered at the polls for it. It sounds like they may have learned their lesson.

So he will create a situation in which he can declare Martial Law and suspend elections, and he'll do it before the mid-terms. My prediction is that it will happen next year, in late-summer/ early fall, after a Hellish summer of violent protests around the country, that he will instigate. He will time his announcement close enough to election day that there won't be time to get it through the courts, and we will skip a mid-term election for the first time on history.

Dems will scream, but they never actually DO anything, so that will soften up the citizens to accept it when he skips the presidential election, too. Then he doesn't have to justify why he deserves a third term, his second term will just never end.

He may even start a war (you know he's itching to do that) to justify keeping Martial Law, and claim he's only doing what FDR did, and not leaving while a war is going on. That's not what happened, FDR was fairly elected 4 times, but that's the excuse he'll use, and the MAGA Nazis will accept it.

I've done way more research into growing crops by actually growing crops.

We have produce in our grocery stores year round because we are able to import them from various microclimates as they ripen. Without imports, it would be impossible to have that same year round coverage of so many different crops. For instance, lettuce can't be grown anywhere in the continental US in hot months like July and August. They bolt and get bitter in the heat. We might be able to grow lettuce in California or Florida in the winter, but not in large enough quantities to supply the salad and sandwich needs of the entire country.

And it would take an incredible number of greenhouses to fill the needs of the entire country, and they still wouldn't solve all problems. You said yourself that we already produce half the produce we require, so if growing crops year round is so easy with greenhouses and such, why arent we already supplying ALL of our crops? Surely it would be cheaper, easier, and more profitable to grow them right here rather than importing them, so why aren't we doing it?

What about fruit, which is often grown on trees, and can't be grown in greenhouses? You can't make an apple tree produce fruit outside of their normal harvest season. I live in Florida, and pass orange orchards every day. They have one harvest season, and that's it. If we want oranges in the off season, they have to be imported.

Temperature isnt even the primary issue in growing crops, although it is very important. The amount of daylight is the bigger factor. Crops flower and produce their fruit or vegetables based on the light cycle. The lettuce I mentioned earlier doesn’t bolt and produce seeds (ruining the plant for eating) because its hot, it is responding to the long daylight hours. You can't change the way the Earth revolves around the sun and wobbles on its axis, so you would have to grow indoors under lights. That's what weed growers do, but weed is a much higher yield plant that can be grown in much smaller indoor facilities. You couldn't grow enough indoor off-season tomatoes or watermelons to supply the entire nation.

Without imports, it is simply impossible to supply a steady supply of produce year round, using only the climate of the continental US, even with greenhouses. Without imports, it is simply a fact that our grocery stores will be full of some produce for a few months of the year, scarce in others, and non-existent for several months. Prices will fluctuate wildly. We will be forced to rely on inferior canned vegetables, although many canned brands are imported from other nations, like tomatoes.

Then there are those regional crops, that are almost exclusively grown elsewhere, and not even grown in the US, like many spices and herbs.

You sound like HitlerPig, going on and on defending your impossible scheme that is based entirely on your own imaginary and ignorant ideas, no matter how much evidenc and experience contradicts it.

They can grow lettice and tomatoes in California, but not year round. You obviously have never had a large vegetable garden or worked on a farm. You can't grow tomatoes in California in the winter. You can't grow lettuce in the high summer.

Even more importantly, you can't stagger their harvest times to have a harvest for every crop every week or month. All vegetables have their optimum season, based on length of day, temperature, rainfall, humidity, etc. You can't simply short circuit nature to suit your demands. Without imports from Central and South America, we will go months without seeing many crops.

And yes, bananas will be more expensive, and so will many other crops. That's the entire point of why people are upset about this - nearly EVERYTHING is going to up.

Many migrant farm workers arent illegal, they are here on agricultural work visas.

And even if they were illegal, how does that translate to slavery or indentured servitude? Those are involuntary, with little or no pay, and no personal agency. They are OWNED.

Migrant farm workers get paid, that's why they go to all the trouble to do it. When the harvest season ends, they go back home to their families, or the move on to next crop. They are NOT owned by anyone.

The Conservative Propaganda Machine.

That's not how agriculture works. If ALL your produce has to come from America you will not have things like tomatoes or lettuce or bananas every month of the year.

Besides, who's going to pick the crops?

Good luck buying fresh vegetables in the winter, most of which come from the Southern Hemisphere. You can't just move the cultivation of off season crops to America.

Many, many things can't be created here, and we have things that other countries can't create. The world has spent decades working out a complex network of trade agreements so that everybody gets what they need, while benefitting their economies.

Then this buffoon staggers into the room, destroying this delicate balance because he has a breath-taking level of mental illness that deludes him into thinking he is genuinely smarter than anyone else in the world, especially knowlegable economists. He alone has conceived of this innovative tariff strategy that literally nobody else has ever considered, and he is pathologically convinced he is 100% correct.

His ignorance and mental illness is going to cause massive upheavals across the entire globe, and cause great suffering and death. It is not worth it because of a misguided hope for a few thousand jobs.

Giving her the credit for firing a bunch of people was her price for his latest blowie.